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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Loathe (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday, an A to Z Post

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"I loathe going to board meetings," he whined, "they ought to be called 'bored' meetings."


"Would you rather be at a board meeting and be bored or be a wooden board and be bored with a drill?" she asked with a grin.


"I think I'd rather buy a board than get bored on board a board."


"Just think, it could be worse, you could be a bored boar watching a boring play on the boards, or on a board that plays boring board games."


"Very funny, but it still doesn't change the fact that I absolutely loathe going to these board meetings."


"At least you get to write on a dry erase board when you're there -- they're quite remarkable, you know."



Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Board.      





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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!


Last week, i posted a fence with some "character."  This one seems to have a little too much character.







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 It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    




From Mom:  I  know we missed a turn!

From Dad:  No, it's a ways yet.

From Sister:  Mom, he's hitting me!

From Brother:  Are we there yet?


From Mom: Honey, we're gonna be late!

From Dad:  We'll be fine, you'll see.

From Sister:  His tail's on my side of the seat!

From Brother:  I need to go pee!


From Mom:  At last, here we are!

From Dad:  I told you it'd be all right.

From Brother and Sister both at the same time:

And see, we promised not to fight!



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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  


Today i'm thankful for laughter, i spent a few minutes watching some funny, clean videos and it's amazing how much it can lift your mood to laugh for a few minutes.






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Today is:


Ambedkar Jayanti -- India (birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, father of the Indian Constitution)


Americas Day -- Honduras


Bisket Jatra -- Nepal (Nepali New Year)


Black Day -- South Korea (for those who got neither Valentine's gifts nor White Day gifts; singles wear black and get together to eat black noodle soup)


Celebrations in the Houses of Ra, Osiris, and Horus -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)


Children with Alopecia Day 


Day of Mologa -- Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia (commemorates the destruction of the town of Mologa during the construction of the Rybinsk Reservoir)


Day of the Georgian Language -- Georgia (marking the 1978 protests of Soviet attempts to suppress the Georgian language)


Elfin Choir Congress -- Fairy Calendar


Ex Spouse Day -- why?


International Moment of Laughter Day -- started by Izzy Gesell 


Kinetoscope Day -- the first commercial exhibition of motion pictures through Edison's "peep show" device occurred on this day in 1894


Look Up At The Sky Day -- internet generated, no history on this one, but if it's a pretty day, take advantage of it (some sites say April 12, but since we don't know who started it, today is fine)


Mahavir Jayanti -- Jain (honoring Lord Mahavira on the founder's birth anniversary; local dates may vary)


Maundy Thursday -- Christian (a/k/a Holy, Green, Chare, Sheer, or Shere Thursday; commemoration of the Last Supper)

     Procession of the Addolorata -- Taranto, Italy


National Dolphin Day -- US


National Love Our Children Day -- sponsored by STOMP Out Bullying and Love Our Children USA


National Pecan Day   


N'Ko Alphabet Day -- Mande Language Speakers


Pan American Day -- Order of the American States


Pesach/Passover -- Judaism (begins this evening, through the evening of April 23)


Pathologists' Assistant Day -- US (American Association of Pathologists' Assistants)     


Rato Machhindranath Jatra -- Nepal (chariot races for the god of rain; cannot confirm this year's date, but always begins mid-April)


Reach as High as You Can Day -- internet generated, and listed on various dates; a good idea, anyway, whenever you decide to celebrate it


Runic Half Month of Man (humanity) begins


Sacrifices to Leto, Pythian Apollon, Zeus, Hermes, and the Dioscuri in the Deme of Erichia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)


Sidereal Equinox New Year Celebrations -- throughout South and Southeast Asia, including

    * Assamese New Year, or Rongali Bihu (India's Assam Valley)

    * Bengali New Year, or Pohela Boishakh (Bangladesh and India's West Bengal state)

    * Burmese New Year, or Thingyan (Burma)

    * Hindu and Sikh New Year, or Vaisakhi (Punjab region)

    * Khmer New Year, or Chol Chnam Thmey, most commonly celebrated on April 13 (Cambodia)

    * Lao New Year, or Songkan / Pi Mai Lao, generally celebrated from 13-15 Aprill(Laos)

    * Malayali New Year, or Vishu (India's Kerala state)

    * Nepali New Year, or Bikram Samwat / Vaishak Ek (Nepal)

    * Oriya New Year, or Maha Visuba Sankranthi (India's Orissa state)

    * Sinhalese New Year, or Aluth Avurudhu (Sri Lanka)

    * Tamil New Year, or Puthandu (India's Tamil Nadu state)

    * Thai New Year, or Songkran, celebrated from 13-15 April(Thailand)

    * Tuluva New Year, or Bisu (India's Karnataka state)



Sommarsblot -- Ancient Norse Calendar (celebration of the coming summer, with sacrifices to the gods over the next several days; through Walpurgis/May 1)


Spring Hula Hooping Day -- try out the old hula hoop one more time, then toss it


St. Benezet's Day (Patron of bachelors, bridge builders; Avignon, France)


St. Lydwina of Schiedam's Day (Patron of ice skating/roller skating/skaters, prolonged suffering, sick people; Schiedam, Netherland; against bodily ills and sickness) 


St. Peter Gonzalez's Day (Patron of boatmen, mariners, sailors, watermen)


St. Tiburtius' Day (Considered the day the cuckoos return to England for the spring)


Takayama Spring Festival -- Takayama City, Japan (often considered one of the 3 most beautiful festivals in Japan; through tomorrow)


Thingyan -- Myanmar (Burmese Water Festival; through the Myanmar New Year on the 17th)


Vaisakhi/Baisakhi -- Sikh (celebration of the spring grain harvest and of the rebirth of the Sikh religion in the 15th Century)


Youth Day -- Angola



Birthdays Today:


Abigail Breslin, 1996

Sarah Michelle Gellar, 1977

Adrien Brody, 1973

Anthony Michael Hall, 1968

Greg Maddux, 1966

Cynthia Cooper, 1963

Robert Carlyle, 1961

Brad Garrett, 1960

Emma Thompson, 1959

Ritchie Blackmore, 1945

Julie Christie, 1941

Pete Rose, 1941

Loretta Lynn, 1935

Rod Steiger, 1925

John Gielgud, 1904

Arnold Joseph Toynbee, 1889

Anne Sullivan, 1866

Emperor Momozono, 1741

Christiaan Huygens, 1629



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"The Boys in the Band"(Musical), 1968

"Bye Bye, Birdie"(Musical), 1960

The Grapes of Wrath(Publication date), 1939

"Jeux d'enfants"(Ballet), 1932

"Murders in the Rue Morgue"(Publication date), 1841

American Dictionary of the English Language(Publication date), 1828



Today in History:


Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded, BC 43

Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital with four Roman legions, beginning the Siege of Jerusalem, 70

Temur, grandson of Kublai Khan, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, 1294

The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid, 1434

Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush establish the first abolitionist society in the US, 1775

Napoleon calls for establishing Jerusalem for the Jews, 1799

Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary, 1828

The Donner Party departs Springfield, Illinois, 1846

Harriet Tubman begins her first Underground Railroad run, 1853

William Bullock patents the continuous-roll printing press, 1863

Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth, 1865

Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills, 1871

Canada passes the Dominion Lands Act, 1872

The RMS Titanic hits an iceberg  at 11:40pmand sinks 2 hours later, 1912

The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1927

The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press, 1939

The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit, 1958

The heaviest hailstones ever recorded, at 1 kilogram, hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92, 1986

The most costly natural disaster in Australian history, a hailstorm, strikes Sydney, Australia, 1999

The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%, 2003

The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County, 2005

Ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano drifts towards Europe, causing air traffic to close over Northern Norway, 2010

The first-ever European MP's of Croatia are determined in an election held in anticipation of Croatia gaining formal entry into the European Union, 2013

Seychelles President Danny Faure makes the first-ever live speech from a submersible, pleading for better marine protection, 2019

Coinbase becomes the first major cryptocurrency company to trade shares on the New York stock exchange, 2021

24 comments:

  1. Very nice poem and six sentences. The brickwork on that fence is really pretty.

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  2. Smiling at the six sentences - and at the car trip. I remember those... Not entirely fondly.

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  3. Love your Six, Mimi! What an interesting day it is - you know, I think there is a hula hoop in the shed somewhere...

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  4. A fence made of bricks is still a fence. Don't take offence at that.

    God bless.

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  5. I enjoy the story and poem. Laughter is good medicine for the soul.

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  6. All the bored and board had us baffled. Mom has to have one meeting a year, but since she is the only owner, she has it with herself so it isn't so boring, LOL!

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  7. You really got on board with your six, brilliant! And the poem, love it.

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  8. I enjoyed reading your story, which sounds like a tongue twister.

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  9. I wasn't bored at all, cool story and a fun poem. That was a terrific thankful too, hooray for laughter. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  10. I loved the poem but I most enjoyed the picture.

    Cruisin Paul

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  11. Love the poem. I've lived that more than once.

    Love your thankful and I'm with you. Laughter is great medicine.

    Have a blessed Thankful Thursday. Big hug. ♥

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  12. Your poem, the fence of the week and your thankful was spot on- where would we be without laughter? Here are my fill-ins:
    Here are my fill-ins:
    1. I hope the Easter Bunny brings me some chocolate!
    2. My favorite part of the Easter ( or Passover) meal is hot cross buns!
    3. I’m most looking forward to sunny days this weekend.
    4. For me, this time of year is full of flowers beginning to bloom and their fragrance is soft and wonderful!

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  13. Cute story -not boring at all. :) I try to avoid meetings as they are all boring and there is always that one person that won't shut up. Cute poem too. XO

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  14. great take on this week's poem !!! and WHOA on the copyright for the dictionary...THAT'S a bunch of years ago !! :) ♥♥

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  15. Fun! Fun! Fun! And I hope you have lots of fun (and lots of chocolate) on your Easter weekend! Take good care while doing so! :)

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  16. That poem was TOTALLY like my brother and I in the backseat of every car ride we EVER had all those years ago! Thanks for the memories....Love it!

    Hugs, Pam

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  17. Oh funny story ~ LOL ~ Hope you get the chocolate you want ~ Xo

    Wishing you love and laughter in your days,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  18. Hahaha! Great treatise on board meetings!
    And I LOVED the poem! Seems like travel is the same in all families!

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  19. "Quite remarkable"? Groaaannn!
    Clever Six...I needed a good chuckle!

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  20. Great writing, you have such a knack. enjoyed it much. Traveling with the phamily, hahaha I remember those days with my folks and with our kids. Nothing changes hahaha

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  21. What a great and fun play on words, Mimi. Love it!

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  22. Wonderful Six, Mimi. We all should have that one person who has the ability to lighten the mood in times of duress or complaining :)

    I LOVE those Subaru commercials, lol
    Hope you don't mind:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvpr-daru1M

    Laughter is absolutely the best medicine.

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  23. Good grief, I'm outta here.
    All aboard!

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